Guided Search: Governance, Students

Join the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia for a conversation with The Honorable Mark Esper about his memoir, "A Sacred Oath." The event will include a keynote address by Secretary Esper and time for Q&A will provide the audience with the chance to dive deeper into the topics of their choosing.  

Every year, military airstrikes in conflict zones like Iraq, Syria, and Libya result in thousands of civilian deaths and displacement. To shed light on the impact that civilians face in these conflict zones, the Council is hosting a discussion with the Director of Airwars, a non-profit transparency organization working to track, assess, and archive military actions and related civilian harm claims in conflict zones.

The Middle East Center at UPenn will be hosting Dr. Rosie Bsheer in conversation with Professor Robert Vitalis. They will be lecturing and conversing on the politics and history of Saudi Arabia.

The Middle East Center, co-sponsored by: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies Program are hosting The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. In The Moral Triangle, Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans in Berlin to explore these asymmetric relationships in the context of official German policies, public discourse, and the private sphere.

In April 2016, computer technicians at the Democratic National Committee discovered that someone had accessed the organization’s computer servers and conducted a theft that is best described as Watergate 2.0. In the weeks that followed, the nation’s top computer security experts discovered that the cyber thieves had helped themselves to everything: sensitive documents, emails, donor information, even voice mails.